Alien_Conquer - 1.0

Taiuã Pires (tay)

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Description

it's an arcade style game that uses only pygame.
the goal is to be the last ship in the game.
the RULES are:
if you have more points than anyone else and get hit by an alien you'll ressurect (as manner of speaking).
every alien you blow will switch to the color of your ship
if the alien you blow IS the color of your ship yoget 10 points,
otherwise you get 20 points.
the blue item is the laser canon and the red one is bullet time.
CONTROLS:
p1: arrow keys to move, right ctrl to shoot.
p2: a,w,s,d to move, space to shoot.
p3: j,i,k,l to move, p to shoot.
p4: (num pad) 1,5,2,3 to move 0 to shoot.
Please remember that the original idea is to play using joysticks (they're automaticly configured) and NOT the keyboard(imagine 8 hands in 1 keyboard).
it wasn't easy to choose the controls, it was the best I could think at the time.
I'll work in a controls screen next for version 1.4.
In a few days I'll put an english update for vesion 1.2.

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March 29, 2008 4:55pm - TaiuÃ£ Pires - nickname: (tay)

OKEYS
by what I researched it seems the problem is the mp3 file

1. bad file (it runs ok here and in my windows so it is not the file)
2. can't play (problem with your audio drivers, lack of audio codecs or problems with your audio libraries such as pygame.mixer or SDL_mixer)

one way or another I'll REmake the Linux version
will be there by tomorrow

March 29, 2008 3:05pm - Tom W - nickname: (tommyw)

I think you hardcoded the file paths in the Linux version which prevents me from running it.

since some people complained about the .rar files I will replace them by .zip files
so in the next one hour (that's how much my bandwidth sucks) you may have trouble downloading

February 1, 2008 7:26pm - pymike - nickname: (pymike)

I can't extract your rar archives. Can you release .zips?

January 27, 2008 6:40am - Luca Fabbri - nickname: (keul)

>Alien Conquer is my game, my time that I spended,
>and most of all my NAME
>I must be careful to not let anyone show
>there an improved copy of Alien Conquer

I can understand what is your point, nop for me! Only this: say this before make the difference! And again is bad report some link to source section when no source is released.

So... good luck for november festival!

PS: I tryed the 1.3 and sometimes the game become very slow. I need to enable graphic acceleration?

January 26, 2008 1:44pm - TaiuÃ£ Pires - nickname: (tay)

The release 1.4 should be done in a week or two
sorry I didn't though there would such critisism in such short period

About the password:
only people I really trust or people from the other side of the globe can have it
it SHOULD be permanently removed of all versions in december of 2008
until there unfortunently I need to be careful with the source code

there is a festival in november and I intent to show Alien Conquer there
the source code is not ready for world wide YET
not until I solve all the copyright issues
this festival happens once in a year in a different state of my country (nope, not USA)
this festival is very important to game developers in my country

and ammong the many differents techniques and algorithyms of programming there is very famous one known as "ctrl c - ctrl v"
and oftenly used here at pygame.org
some people come here and copy projects
some for example, some to improve them and some for simply stealing

Alien Conquer is my game, my time that I spended, and most of all my NAME
I must be careful to not let anyone show there an improved copy of Alien Conquer

of course I won't deny help to new game programmers as long as they have the decency to mention my name in their projects

only 2 people have the password
one of them is a game developer and the other is friend of mine

after the festival and I having ALL copyrights of Alien Conquer there will be no reason for the password

so that is the real reason for me putting a password in the source code

January 26, 2008 5:32am - Luca Fabbri - nickname: (keul)

... and the RAR archive with source on the website is closed by password...

January 26, 2008 5:29am - Luca Fabbri - nickname: (keul) - 1/5

I don't find (and don't know) any reference to a "pygame site usage guideline" (and I think this is bad... in facts I can release a virus here?!? :-) but I don't like much how "sources" are released in your project.

I think you are free to not release the source of the game here and choose other way to do this (or don't!), so you can freely ask for user email to get them (as I already did, without problem), but is rude to release binary (a package with dll and .pyc) calling this "source".

For a cleaner use of what pygame home site leave to developers, I think you must delete all reference to Source. You AREN'T releasing source!

So I think you must ask for direct user contact directly in the project description, or directly write "If you wanna get source, go to the home page".

January 25, 2008 10:54pm - TaiuÃ£ Pires - nickname: (tay)

ops
I forgot to mention in this release
the version as source is a closed code for UNIX only
they run perfectly but you can't see the code
for the REAL source code go to my home page